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Item Number: 109066
Title: Working with Limestone : The Science, Technology and Art of Medieval Limsetone Monuments
Author: Olson, Vibeke (ed)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780754662464
Description: Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011. 24cm., hardcover, 288pp., 135 b&w illus. Contents: Introduction, William W. Clark, Georgia Sommers Wright and Nancy Wu; Part I The Science and Technology of Limestone: Analysis, Geology and Conservation: Medieval limestone by the numbers, Lore L. Holmes and Garman Harbottle with Annie Blanc; Orphan heads: Notre-Dame and Saint-Jacques-aux Pèlerins in Paris and Saint-Pierre at Jumièges, Georgia Sommers Wright with Lore L. Holmes and Garman Harbottle; Limestone, Lincoln cathedral and neutron activation analysis: pushing the methodological envelope, Thomas Russo, Lore L. Holmes and Garman Harbottle; Stone from medieval churches located to the south and east of Paris, Annie Blanc and Jean-Pierre Gély; Building stones at Saint-Denis from its beginnings to the 18th century, Jean-Pierre Gély and Michaël Wyss; Treatment techniques for the conservation of limestone monuments, Jonathan Hoyte. Part II The Technology and Art of Limestone: Industry, Labor and Design: Use and non-use of limestone in Romanesque Burgundy: the example of Autun, Walter Berry; On the road again: limestone sculpture in 12th-century France, Janet Snyder; The whole is the sum of its parts: standardizing medieval limestone production, Vibeke Olsen; Masons and their materials in medieval Ireland, Roger Stalley; Discipline and freedom in the shaping of stone: the interface of architecture, structure and sculpture late in the Middle Ages, Nigel Hiscock.

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